ARG Tools 2.0, now with more dictionary

ARG Tools, the iPhone app that gives you puzzle-solving tools and reference in your pocket just got a dictionary. You may already know of ARG Tools, but in case you haven’t, it’s an iPhone app that provides a set of tools, reference material, and links for anyone who plays Alternate Reality Games, participates in transmedia storytelling, or solves puzzle trails and hunts. The tools range from decoder-ring style codebreaking to countdown timer prediction. The reference material includes word frequency, morse code, semaphore, and more.

The key feature added to 2.0 is a dictionary engine that lets you search for words through pattern matching. This is useful for crosswords and cryptograms. Need a five letter word starting with NI? Punch in “NI???” and see results like NINJA and NINES. Version 2.0 also gives you a red/green/blue color mixer in hex and decimal, several alternate views of code sheets (Morse code as a tree, pigpen as a grid, semaphore as geometric vectors).

Morse code tree

color mixer

In addition to this, you continue to get all the existing great features:

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